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Asterisk Asterisk Support
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Further to my revious post a (very) short while ago… I happend upon this useful bit of info.

From it I found that if not using a pri card, you need to install the ztdummy module. I did this, and am still getting exactly the same errors I was previously. I suspect my issue is with missing and misconfigured config files. I’ll carry on looking, and hoping someone can knock some sense into me!

MacBeaver

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Did you do ‘make samples’ after you made / installed asterisk?

Have a look at http://www.automated.it/guidetoasterisk.htm, it is quite informative.

After running ‘make samples’ you should have an almost working setup to edit as you wish.

Mike.

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Thanks Mike,

I’ll give that a try tomorrow and post back!

Tomorrow I will hopefully also have approval to go ahead with some purchasing.

Ta very much!

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I have said this before, but, with Asterisk, it isn’t a case of ‘Will it do this?’ it is always ‘how do I do this?’, I believe that you can get it to do anything you want it to if you are prepared to read into it and ask questions.
You will have great fun setting up a new system and customising it to behave how you want. With forethought put into your dialling plan it is a really powerful system.

I wish I had the opportunity to specify and set up a large scale system, I know I would love every minute!

Best of luck.

Mike.

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You guys rock, one and all.

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(“make samples” worked!)

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Hello again all,

So… my adventure with Asterisk continues…

I now have 2 x Aastra 9133i’s to play with. Yay!

I’m having problems setting up dhcp and tftp… I’ve configured my asterisk server to dish out ip addresses to the phones ok. My problem is with the tftp setup. Can anyone recommend what dhcp and tftp servers to use on my ubuntu box? Or maybe point me in the direction of some good sample config files (httpd.conf, inetd.conf etc.), or a good how to for this? My googling so far has been fruitless. I’ve found several sample configs etc but nothing specific, or nothing that works. And the ubuntu wiki (which is normally very good) is not helping me out either!

Thanks in advance!

MacBovril

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When the phone attempts to get it’s config from the server… the following is logged in syslog (I’m using the -l switch in my inetd.conf on the tftpd line):

Nov 10 11:38:36 testerisk in.tftpd[6419]: cannot bind to local socket: Address already in use Nov 10 11:38:36 testerisk inetd[4412]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x4700 Nov 10 11:38:36 testerisk in.tftpd[6420]: connect from ::ffff:192.168.0.250 (::ffff:192.168.0.250) Nov 10 11:38:36 testerisk in.tftpd[6420]: cannot bind to local socket: Address already in use Nov 10 11:38:36 testerisk inetd[4412]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x4700 Nov 10 11:38:36 testerisk inetd[4412]: tftp/udp server failing (looping), service terminated

I hope this helps!

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It works!

I just made my first call from one 9133i through asterisk to another. OK, it’s a little ropey and I know theres about a million hours more playing around and configuring to come… but I am so buzzing right now!

Anyhow… my workaround so far has included:

  1. /etc/inetd.conf does not seem to serve up files correctly but running in.tftpd from a command line does.
  2. dhcpd.conf requires the line "tftp-server-name=

I will post my config files next week but it’s Friday and I’m already late going home, so will be in trouble with the missus.

Like I said, I will give a more detailed description of my setup next week for any other newbies and for you more experienced folk who may be interested in what I was doing wrong…

Thanks,
MacBeaver

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can i suggest that when you compile your how-to, you use the wiki pages to keep it on.

if someone creates/help creates/knows of a good, detailed setup page for indicidual phones i’ll create a section in the sticky on this forum, and we can direct people that way. unfortunately, most people don’t search the forum.